Abidjan sheher aashiquion ka

Thanka to Saurav for the title of the post...life at Abidjan is coming to an end. At least with the current employer. And it's Afteen Afreen to the life here...probably the best 7 years of my professional life...

I have to thank a lot of people for this, Batra, Saurav, Ashwin, Pritu, Mallik, Manoj, Arjit, Vicky, Sachin, Shaurya & many more...

And here to the life at Abidjan:

Chehra ik phool ki tarh shaadaab hai
Chehra us ka hai ya koyi mahtaab hai
Chehra jaise ghazal chehra jaan-I ghazal
Chehra jaise kali chehra jaise kanwal
Chehra jaise tasawwur bhi tasweer bhi
Chehra ik khaab bhi chehra taa’beer bhi
Chehra koyi alf lailawi daastaan
Chehra ik pal yaqeen chehra ik pal gumaan
Chehra jaisa ke chehra kaheen bhi nahi
Maah-ru maah-ru mah-jabeen mah-jabeen

Tarkeeb Sikha

Mujhko bhi tarkeeb sikha de yaar Mere yaar julaahe
Aksar tujhko dekha hai Ki taana bunte,
Jab koi taaga toot gaya Ya khatam hua
Phir se baandh ke sira koi jod ke usme
Aage bunne lagte ho

Tere uss taane mein lekin Ek bhi gaantth girah buntar ki…dekh nahin sakta hai koi

Maine to ek baar bunna thaa Ik hi rishta
Lekin uski saari girhein saaf nazar aati hain mere yaar julahee
Mujhko bhi tarkeeb sikha de mere yaar julahee

Boundary conditions

On the verge of getting to those blank moods where I will get in the hibernate mode. Want to avoid that. No songs going in the mind, nothing seem to be useful. Not able find solace in books, music, friends...not sure if I should get in to hibernation or not. 

Dikhayi Diye Yun

Parasthish kiya tak ke aye but tujhe 
Nazar mein sabhon ki khuda kar chale 

Dikhayi diye yun ke bekhud kiya 
Hamein aap se bhi juda kar chale 
Dikhayi diye yun 

What a class. Thanks Vicky Pathak for introducing this...its on auto repeat.

Tere bina zindagi se...auto repeat...

Tum jo keh do to, Aaj Ki raat, chaand dubega Nahin...

Raat ko, rok lo...

Raat ki baat he, Aur zindagi, baki to nahi...

Tere bina zindagi se shikwa, to nahi...

Best of Qaiser...

Apni aankhon me chhupa rakhhe he jugnu mene...

Apni palkon me saja rakhhe he aansoo mene...

Meri aankhon ko bhi, barsat ka, mauka de de...

Ham tere sheher me aaye he, musafir ki tarah

Sirf ek baar, mulaqat ka mauka de de...

Ghalib Times

Khuda ke vaste, parda na kaabe se utha zaalim...

Kahin aisa na ho yaan bhi wohi kafir sanam nikle

This does not need explanation or translation...

On the way to Dubai

So many different thoughts in my mind. Right now I am on the way to Dubai, for my first ever product meet as Mallik pointed out. So, the ppt is ofcourse on my mind. I can't post this now, no internet, but I will post it from Dubai once I reach. I am watching "Karma" on my flight, few of the thoughts crossing my mind:

- Karma is an awesome movie

- looking forward to meet Nachi & Lekshmi

- I was so late in realizing Dilip Kumar is such a great actor

- I am an emotional fool

- have to mention Nachi again, he is probably the most mentioned person on my old blog 

- lamb, if prepared well, is an awesome meat to have

- I still don't like salad 

- what a song - dil diya he, jaan bhi denge

- Harry Potter - I can read it infinite times in my life, started with first book again 

- I still feel Harry should have gone for Harmaoine, she deserved better (Harry still got a good deal though)

- Ema Watson is amazingly pretty, will she be interested in marrying my son? (Shit I am getting old, I am thinking about Malhar's marriage)

- So I never thought I will retire, what will I do??? But then, I may join politics. Lakhya is not very clear...

Lakhya to...har hal me pana he...

Enough thoughts for the day...

Bamako Times

For last 2 years, I came to Bamako, but always with some other business, always just tagged along, always not-so-much hopefull. Both visit kind of ended with no hope of coming back to Mali. 

This time, came alone, came with hope and mostly, will leave hopeful tomorrow. Will also leave with a plan to come again soon. 

But alone? It's seriously pathetic. Just trying to kill time somehow. And thanks to Murphy, I forgot to carry my kindle :(

Sathi koi bhula yaad aaya

What a life, totally screwed up professionally while totally fun after office. Thanks to the gang, the ritual these days is to gather at sachin's or Ashwin's, eat, drink, sing or watch Hindi songs on you tube. Songs ranging from tum to thehre pardesi(Altaf raja) to chitthi aayi he (Pankaj) to hum ko kis ke (Ghulam Ali) to Baby Dol...

Will always miss this...